Services

The AgileTrailblazers® transformation services build towards an end state for your organization to realize Continuous Business Value Delivery (CBVD)® and provide the tools to achieve this transformation regardless of your organization’s current solution delivery process maturity. For our clients, we utilize the AgileGPS® tools towards your organizational transformation.

Advisory Services

Enterprise Agile Adoption

Agile adoption is successful when smaller organizations attempt a transition. However, when companies that have global or multiple locations, a mix of contractors and full time employees, time zone differences, a multi-million dollar portfolio embedded with traditional project management, the challenges of implementing agile at the enterprise scale level is not a simple straightforward process.

We provide consulting for executive leadership and senior leadership in enterprise organizations to raise awareness of the practical challenges that they should expect with agile adoption as well as pragmatic real-world tried and tested tools and processes that enable large scale enterprise agile adoption.

Executive Workshops

Based on the industry and your organizations goals, we conduct executive workshops that are designed to enable organizations to achieve Continuous Business Value Delivery (CBVD)®. We provide insights into the transformation journey, the preparation required to be successful as well as governance structure for executives to conduct organizational change management.

A CBVD® focused Organization – Lead/Agile adoption in the Enterprise – An introduction to CBVD® and how a lean/agile implementation enables competitive advantage. We strive to drive the values of an agile organization using our programs such as AgileFLOW, AgiLEAD® and AgileGPS® each designed to enable CBVD® for your organization.

Jumpstart your Agile Adoption Journey – This workshop is designed to plan and define your agile adoption journey. This includes how to select a pilot team, ensuring that core principles such as inspect and adapt are embedded in your organization’s culture. Creation of strategic change initiative roadmap, definition of milestones, and creation of the agile adoption backlog.

At the program, product, portfolio, or enterprise level, we can help you plan the transformation program that is best for your business:

Agile Transformation Objectives (ATO) assessments

We conduct an in depth assessment for your current capabilities using our ATO assessments based on the 4 core organizational capabilities – Speed, Quality, Scalability & Adaptability. We help you baseline your current capabilities in terms of skills, practices, and policies to establish the full scope of change that your organization should expect. In addition to development, team skills, and practices, we also assess the likely impact and need for change for the broader organization (e.g. QA, operations, IT and corporate governance, and management roles).

Agile Organizational Design

We provide guidance and strategic organizational design to ensure that AgileFLOW breaks out in your organization. We study your organizations’ needs based on your business objectives and help align the organization to be able deliver the business objectives. This alignment is based on business and IT teams organized to enable rapid delivery of innovative ideas through your development pipeline.

Agile Technical Practices (ATP)

We help you analyze your current technical practices vs. the Agile Technical Practices (ATP) and do a Gap/Fit analysis. Based on this analysis, we provide you a roadmap to improve your ATP that will significantly improve your delivery throughput. Our analysis and roadmap is created with a detailed 100-point assessment of your ATP capabilities.

Technical debt evaluation

We help you analyze your systems, legacy source, and program structure to identify technical debt, its likely impact on your operations, and the cost and benefits of remediation. We demonstrate how the adoption of Agile practices will reduce existing technical debt and stop new debt from accruing, and how this improvement can be measured in terms of greater quality and lowered maintenance and production costs.

Portfolio review and analysis

We have managed and optimized large portfolios and have the experience to help you transform your traditional Portfolio Management Office to an Agile Portfolio Management Office that will give you the ability to create, prioritize, manage strategies and wisely invest in appropriate Business and IT projects to maximize your risk/return (look for term), shorten time to market, and better utilize capital investments. We will provide you with tools and techniques to balance strategic business projects, new IT initiatives and investing to improve operational capabilities.

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)™ Consulting

We have SAFe™ Certified Program Consultants and SAFe™ Agilists that have hands on experience in implementing the SAFe™ framework for large enterprises. We can support your organization to form Business Value streams, for the Agile Release Trains (ART) and help your organization at the portfolio, program and team level to help your organization achieve the cadence and synchronization necessary to achieve the Potentially Shippable Increment (PSI).

DevOps Delivery

We help your organization to form system teams and deliver on DevOps practices such as Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Environment Management, Continuous Testing and Release Management. We partner with leading vendors in the technical space and provide you with recommendations for the best tools that meet your needs. We inject technical leadership in the DevOps space into your organization with the intent of helping you build this capability internally while we blaze the trail for your organization to see systemic and sustainable improvements.

Agile Change Management

We recognize your investment in CMMI, ITIL, ITSM and your needs for regulatory and compliance. Our change programs draw on the best of these processes while carefully incorporating changes in the people, process and tools to establish Lean and Agile principles that drive incremental progress, improve transparency and create an environment for breakthrough collaboration thus driving an environment that fosters Continuous Business Value Delivery.

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If you are interested in finding out more how AgileTrailblazers can help you to achieve Continuous Business Value Delivery®, please visit our Contact Us page, call us, or send us an e-mail